Sooooo....we completely stopped writing blog posts. Not really sure why, but we just did. I could blame it on being busy, but that's a lame excuse. Unless you are doing essential tasks from the moment you wake up to the moment you go to sleep, which no one does, you are saying "everything else in my day is more important, including the good hour spent looking at weird stuff on the internet, like pictures of girls with Steve Buscemi's eyes" So I say to you all, yes, at some point I made the decision to watch this honey badger video rather than tell people what we're doing. I'm sorry.
To catch everyone up on what's been happening with Downeast Cider House would take longer than I'm willing to write, and longer than you're willing to read, so I'll be brief:
Cans
Now that you're caught up, let me give you a sampling of how simple of a task we have in achieving what we have been referring to as our next "platform" of production. We have a certain amount of fermentation capacity. We want to take that cider and put it into kegs and cans. There is more demand than we can supply. We have cider ready to go, 500+ kegs, 130,000+ cans, a keg filler/cleaner, and a canning line. Simple, right? Then why aren't we at the canning line, selling cider, cashing checks, buying more cider, and repeating? At the moment, three simple words: single phase power. Due to power requirements on some of our equipment, we need to adjust some of our electrical work. I won't say how much it costs, but the last time I felt such a swift, symbolic kick to the groin was February 5, 2012.
Anyways, like always, we remain optimistic that we will have cans available in August. We couldn't be more excited to spend 12 hours a day doing this.
Last but not least, I made a very serious promise last night. If at some point in my life my net worth is 7 figures, I promise to drop everything and devote my entire livelihood toward the charitable improvement of what might be the most crucial aspect of quality of life as we know it. I'm talking of course about developing a washer/dryer that does not require a manual switch to the dryer. Over 40 years ago we put people on the moon, but I'm still dropping my clean clothes on the dirty floor during the transfer. If we have this, these, and this*, I think we deserve an all in one washer/dryer. If no one else will do it, I will**.
* - I'm not a hard-boiled egg guy, but I'm not sure how I've made it to this point eating egg-shaped eggs. I'm a cuber from here on out
** - Does it exist, because I can't find it.
UPDATE - http://www.homedepot.com/buy/appliances/laundry/lg-electronics/4-2-cu-ft-iec-capacity-front-load-washer-dryer-combo-24371.html
